Posted By Neil Matsumoto
By Nathan Lee Bush It’s easy to forget how recently film lorded over the Hollywood – how absolute, how unquestionable it’s dominance as the medium of choice. Sure, digital was convenient, and certainly there was that mysterious theoretical crossover point at which image quality could uncannily pass the Turing test of a trained DP’s eye,
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
With the introduction of the C300 late last year, Canon raised their flag in the professional motion picture camera space. With the great success of the C300, they have since added the 1D C and C500 – both capable of capturing 4K resolution (4K RAW capture for the C500). But for many indie filmmakers, the
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
Canon U.S.A. Inc. has created another partnership with director Ron Howard for Long Live Imagination. The partnership kicks off on May 7, 2012 with a digital campaign, and is a sequel to Howard and Canon’s successful Project Imagin8ion – a user generated photo contest that produced a Hollywood production-style short film. For Long Live Imagination, a
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
With the exception of a camera from Blackmagic Design that nobody saw coming, I think it’s safe to say Canon owned NAB 2012. Not only were they showcasing their excellent new Cinema EOS C300, they also launched the update to the 5D Mark II camera – the 5D Mark III. It’s also probably safe to say that
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
Around the world, even people who have no association to the filmmaking community are well aware of the Canon 5D Mark II – a landmark camera that has changed the production industry like no camera before it. Even before Canon knew what they had, professional cinematographers began to flock to the video-enabled DSLR to create
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
As most of you know, the Canon C300 is the most talked about camera on the market. With the announcement of the Cinema EOS system, Canon is going ‘all-in’ on the high-end digital production game, especially with the C300 camera and the new Cinema EOS professional PL- and EF-mount lenses. The C300 is now on
Posted By Clint Milby
Grade 1 Monitor Delivers Color Accuracy On Set Due to changes in camera technology, it’s now become possible to colorgrade on set instead of having to transfer it to another facility. Many DIT’s are using systems that empower cinematographers to apply the 3D color space on set
Posted By Clint Milby
SNL Veteran, Talks About Using the C300 For Network Television… Recently I attended the 11th annual San Francisco Supermeet. Beyond some great lectures by
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
In recent years, RED and Canon have changed the professional and indie marketplace in ways never before imagined with industry giants Panavision and Kodak falling at the wayside of digital democratization. RED Digital Cinema first announced their RED ONE 4K digital cinema camera back in 2006 and although many cinematographers in the industry were at